While people like this dog has focused almost exclusively on the Mueller Report that looked at the campaign of Donald Trump in 2016 and more?
Democratic politicians around the country looking for votes and attention have found out that even though the national media also is running with ALL Things Trump?
Democratic voters are NOT...
While us political junkies know all about this stuff?
Most American do NOT….
Nor do they want spend all their time on it…
They are looking for more about their daily lives and how they can get better….
NY Times March 23, 2019….
For Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday, it wasn’t quite campaigning as usual after the delivery of a long-awaited report from the special counsel roiled Washington over the weekend. But it was pretty close.
At events across early primary states, voters asked about health care and school shootings and immigration. Questioners were far less likely to address the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which was delivered to Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday.
Democratic voters said they cared deeply about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election but weren’t quite sure what to make of the latest twist, exactly.
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“We don’t know what’s in it,” said Alane Sullivan, 63, a retired businesswoman, after attending a town hall meeting with Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in Rye, N.H. “One thing about people in New Hampshire: They are looking for answers, and they knew she wouldn’t know yet.”
The lack of questions at campaign events about the report surprised some of the candidates, who had come prepared with lines about the latest development in the nearly two-year investigation.
“I tried to kind of delicately bring it up because I think it is the major issue,” Ms. Klobuchar told reporters after her event.
Ms. Klobuchar used a question about the separation of powers to mention her desire that the findings be made public — but that was the beginning and the end of public conversation about the topic.
In South Carolina, the one question Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, fielded about the Mueller report came from State Senator Marlon Kimpson, a local Democrat and a host of a town hall with Mr. O’Rourke in Charleston. He asked whether Congress should consider impeaching the president “assuming there’s facts and evidence” that President Trump knew about collusion or coordination with Russians who meddled in the 2016 election…..
Note….
Yes….
There ARE TWO different realities operating in America….
Those in Washington and the media are dead one focused on Donald Trump’s Presidency….
But?
Americans across the country do not have the time for anything in detail about the Mueller Report or what Trump does….They grasp at the simple headlines…
So?
Democrats running for office in the next 18 months will be smart to talk about mostly OTHER things then how crooked and outright crazy Donald Trump is….
Vulnerable House Democrats tread carefully in wake of Mueller report
Joseph Ax
(Reuters) – Vulnerable House Democrats, mindful of President Donald Trump’s continued strength among Republican voters, are using caution in how they respond to the special counsel’s report, which detailed Trump’s efforts to thwart the investigation into Russian efforts to help him win the White House.
More than 30 Democratic representatives, many of whom are in their first term, represent districts that supported Trump in 2016. The party’s chances of keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives likely hinge its ability to defend those seats….
[The Mueller Report’s release] is putting pressure on congressional Democrats to decide whether to pursue impeachment charges against Trump, whose continued popularity with his Republican base could weigh heavily on Democratic lawmakers in swing districts.
Those incumbent Democrats may have to strike a delicate balance on the campaign trail next year. Too much bashing of the president could turn off voters more interested in kitchen-table issues and motivate Trump sympathizers to rally around him.
Hours after Mueller’s findings were released, Abby Spanberger, a Democratic congresswoman from Virginia, held a town hall that saw virtually no discussion of the report. She knocked off a Republican incumbent last year in a district that favored Trump by more than 6 percentage points in 2016.
The 39-year-old representative told reporters before the event that she was more interested in preventing Russia from attacking the electoral process than in “re-litigating” the 2016 presidential contest.
“Regardless of what actions the president did or didn’t take … understanding in far greater detail the aggression of a foreign adversary nation against our election’s infrastructure should ideally help us avoid such circumstances in the future,” she said.
Other Democrats facing reelection in swing districts also reacted cautiously, saying they would reserve judgment until after reading the voluminous report, or emphasizing the threat of Russian interference rather than Trump’s behavior.
“If the conclusion remains that there is no further criminal wrongdoing, I think we should, as a country, move on and ensure that Russia cannot interfere again,” said Ben McAdams, a freshman Utah Democrat in a Republican-leaning district.
INTERNAL DEBATE
The 448-page report’s release has sparked an internal debate within the Democratic Party on how to move forward….
U.S. Representative Cheri Bustos, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the party’s House campaign arm, set the tone for her most endangered colleagues on Thursday. In a statement, she said she would read the report carefully, then pivoted to other issues.
“As we review this report, I also remain committed to continuing my efforts to bring down the cost of health care, invest in our infrastructure and clean up the mess in Washington,” Bustos said.
Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who won her first term last fall in a district that voted for Trump in 2016, told Reuters many Democrats were elected because “voters want checks and balances and a return to good government and government we can trust.”
Still, speaking after a town hall on Thursday evening, the 35-year-old emphasized that most voters going into 2020 are more concerned about issues such as health care, education and infrastructure.
One of her constituents, Joy Marie Zug, said she voted for Trump in 2016 after having supported Democratic President Barack Obama. Zug says she has since soured on Trump due to his “lies.”
The 46-year-old adult education administrator said Democrats should consider impeachment, based on the mountain of evidence in the Mueller report. But in a reflection of the difficulty of the strategic choice facing Democrats, she also said they should avoid making it a top campaign issue…..
“I don’t think this is something they need to run on,” she said. “I just wish this wasn’t the end.”
[Reporting by Joseph Ax in New York; Additional reporting by Steve Friess in Livonia, Michigan; Gary Robertson in Henrico, Virginia; Susan Cornwell in Washington; and Chris Kahn in New York; Editing by Frank McGurty and Marla Dickerson]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-districts/vulnerable-house-democrats-tread-carefully-in-wake-of-mueller-report-idUSKCN1RW09W
The above Reuters piece compliments this post…
While the national media in Washington focuses on a President that lies and lives and operates on the edge of legality?
Most of American’s just worry about getting thru each day…
Trump’s lies and misques seems to not touch their lives…
That’s actually NOT true…
Trump’s actions touch on healthcare, taxes and tons of other issues…
If Democrats cannot relate Trump and Republican policy to the everyday lives of voters?
They will see Trump indeed continue in office….
Trump seemingly has the cover of the nations US Senate Republicans , who most properly will NOT vote to convict Trump of his illegal actions….
In the end?
The way to get Trump out of office may come down to just the vote next November…
To do that will mean Democrats must take back the electoral votes in Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida…